Recent road trip...and a REALLY cool find.
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A week past I traveled with my uncle to pick up a purchase of nearly 250,000 wheat cents from a gentleman 10 hours drive from home in Northern Indiana. Instead of coming straight home, we stopped through our family homestead area near Xenia, Ohio. We visited with my great aunts and uncles and other relatives. I had thought the coins were going to end up being the highlight of the trip before I left home, but instead a piece of paper of no consequential monteary value ended up being the centerpiece of the trip.
It's a hand written loan agreement for crop materials dated 1881. The important part of the document were the penned signatures of my great, great grandfather Thomas D. Daughtrey and his father Benjamin. How many of you can say you have a paper signed by your great, great, great grandfather? Wow....this is the coolest document I've ever had....thanks to my grandfather's sister for hanging on to it and passing it to me.
The sigs...unfortunately the one is on a tear in the paper.
Oh...BTW, the 1,500 lbs. of cents made it back with us safely. Many, many rainy days will be spent going through them.
It's a hand written loan agreement for crop materials dated 1881. The important part of the document were the penned signatures of my great, great grandfather Thomas D. Daughtrey and his father Benjamin. How many of you can say you have a paper signed by your great, great, great grandfather? Wow....this is the coolest document I've ever had....thanks to my grandfather's sister for hanging on to it and passing it to me.
The sigs...unfortunately the one is on a tear in the paper.
Oh...BTW, the 1,500 lbs. of cents made it back with us safely. Many, many rainy days will be spent going through them.
C. D. Daughtrey, NLG
The Lincoln cent store:
http://www.lincolncent.com
My numismatic art work:
http://www.cdaughtrey.com
USAF veteran, 1986-1996 :: support our troops - the American way.
The Lincoln cent store:
http://www.lincolncent.com
My numismatic art work:
http://www.cdaughtrey.com
USAF veteran, 1986-1996 :: support our troops - the American way.
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I'm a huge tornado fan. Northern Indiana (Elkhart, Goshen, Dunlap) the site of some of the worst of the 1965 Super Outbreak--the photograph of the twin funnel there is the best ever of a tornado--and Xenia, of course, the focal point of the 1974 Super Outbreak.
The Lincoln cent store:
http://www.lincolncent.com
My numismatic art work:
http://www.cdaughtrey.com
USAF veteran, 1986-1996 :: support our troops - the American way.
New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.
WS
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9
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"For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
We all have our stories and ancestors but that is so great to have something tangible to link
your past to.